Global Maritime and Colonial Histories

This edited volume collects valuable essays on a fashionable trend across the world: modest dressing. Rarely viewed as a fashion, modest attire is now part of a global industry for Muslim, Christia...

Purpose This paper aims to identify the appropriate model to address the financial challenges in agricultural sector in Zanzibar. Since the middle of 1960, clove production has continually and significantly decreased because of some problems and challenges that include financial ones. The financial intermediaries such…

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Biray Kolluoğlu ve Meltem Tokgöz’ün editörlüğünde ve çeşitli akademisyenlerin katkılarıyla meydana gelen Cities of The Mediterranean/ Akdeniz Şehirleri isimli eserde; odak noktası olarak belirlenen Akdeniz şehirlerinin 14.yüzyıldan itibaren, jeopolitik, ticari, kültürel önemi ve Akdeniz kartografisinin bağlantı noktal…

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Contemporary architectural discourse mostly assumes an unmediated link between architecture and culture. This is a historical assumption, however, rooted in colonial encounters when the notion of cultural difference first entered the architectural scene. In the first part of my article, I focus on a statement by Vitru…

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Japan was one of the most powerful empires in world politics from 1905 to 1945. The Japanese imperial elites followed the Muslim World policies of the European empires while developing their own policies towards Muslim societies of Asia. There was an important debate among Japan’s government officers and intellectuals…

Since the arrival of Turkish military forces on the island of Cyprus in 1974, archaeological activity below the water in northern Cyprus has been virtually non-existent. In August 2008, however, an international team conducted an underwater survey in this disputed region to document and assess the variety of maritime…

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In the late 19th century, ancient tombs were discovered near the village of Vohemar at the northeastern point of Madagascar, and subsequent excavations during the French period (1896–1945) revealed the presence of a major necropolis active from ~13th to 18th centuries. Some artefacts (Chinese ceramic shards and glass…

Two migratory fish species from the Red Sea, Oxyurichthys petersi (Gobiidae) and Upeneus pori (Mullidae), have been recorded in the Aegean Sea for the first time. The presence of these species in the Aegean Sea is the result of migration from the Red Sea via the Suez Canal.

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